The Amateur Mechanic's Workshop: A Treatise Containing Plain and Concise Directions for the Metals, Casting, Forging, Brazing, Soldering, and Carpentry (Classic Reprint)

Uuwinj; pages are luteuiled to aiipplj a want long tult by amiiteur mechnnios iif uhandy book on the various operations of the workshop. The only work of tho kind which iuulades manipuiatiou in wood and metat is that by Uoltzaiifiel, io three oxpenaivc volumes, a work of immeasurable value, to which not only the writer of the present treatise, but all who have of lute years attempted similar productions, are infinitely indebted. The scope, however, of tho above is almost of necessity too extensive, as the whole is too costly for the purposes of tho general amateur. It was, indeed, designed as an introduction to a comprehensive work outhe lathe, aud though i a maoner complete in itself, it is yet evidently arranged with that ultimate object in view. Henoe there appears to be still room for some such concise treatise as is now offered to the amateur; and it is hoped that the following Hints (for it pretends to .I jltie nr.rej may ludi.) )to render more easy those manifold aud varied operations carried ou with more or less succcsa iu tbo workshop of tlio aiuatui mechanic.
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